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Now for the comment part!
There aren't "two kinds of punishment." A person in the country illegally, for whatever reason, is a fugitive from justice. The same way you would hope MAX authorities would turn over a suspected arsonist, pedophile or rapist to the police, once they realized they had that person in their grasp, MAX authorities are turning people over to the feds.
Whatever we think of the heartbreaking results of deportation, there shouldn't be any doubt that a suspected illegal immigrant is a criminal suspect.
Why should these particular suspects be let go, while we'd expect others, who are legal citizens, to be arrested?
Uh, wait, what? Two different kinds of punishments? Not at all. The fine for both people for *not paying the fare* would be the same, it just so happens that in the course of the investigation, it is revealed that one group of people are not citizens. And, when this gets discovered, said people are reported to ICE.
So the second group of people are guilty of an infraction that the first group (citizens who don't pay their fare) have not committed. Is this super controversial? I don't get it, I have to confess.
We sure do love to fluff ourselves in this town.
I get your point CC, but this is still a poor prioritization of resources. The reason that the feds after going after fare dodgers is because its easier to get them than all those arsonist, pedophile and rapist running around Portland. They're juking the stats!
Don't let this guy visit Tokyo--he might just go completely insane and wonder how he left the planet.
said by people who probably drive to work and live in nice houses.
Public transit and cramped homes w/no yards are for the little people.
Am I taking crazy pills? Isn't sneaking into the country (or overstaying a visa) a pretty big deal? I really, really, really don't get the "c'mon, their only crime is being part of a shadow population that snuck into the country. We really should look the other way when they (continue) to commit crimes, if they're just little crimes." WTF. Policy is fucked, too, but the liberal response is baffling.
Congressional Research Service - Immigration Enforcement Within the United States:
"The INA includes both criminal and civil components, providing both for
criminal charges (e.g., alien smuggling, which is prosecuted in the federal courts) and
for civil violations (e.g., lack of legal status). Being illegally
present in the U.S. has always been a civil, not criminal, violation of the INA"
(http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33351.pd…)
But really on matters of illegal immigration, I always defer to Moe Szyslak, who famously said: "Immigrants! I knew it was them. Even when it was the BEARS, I knew it was them." (http://youtu.be/vhnTyxTBk9s)
Once again, the radical bear agenda is using immigrants to deflect attention away from all the problems they're (!) creating!!!!
I'm pretty sure we just broke the internet.